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<br />The experiment responds to specific Adaptive Management Program goals that include maintaining a <br />quality rainbow trout fishery at Lees Ferry while protecting and enhancing native fish populations <br />downstream of Lees Ferry. It also responds to National Patk Service management policies that favor <br />native species within national parks. The removal effort is !designed to benefit native fish downstream <br />from Glen Canyon Dam without impacting the tail-water !tout fishery. <br /> <br />Public Meetings on Transfer of Collbran Project: Reclamation, the Ute and Collbran Water <br />Conservancy Districts have completed two public meetings, On Aug 6 and 7, regarding the proposed <br />transfer of the Collbran Project, including Vega Reservoir from Reclamation to the Districts. <br /> <br />Facilities involved in the proposed transfer could include Vega Dam and Reservoir, associated feeder and <br />delivery canals, the Molina hydropower plants, and Recla$ation's interests in 15 Grand Mesa reservoirs <br />including those on the Cottonwood and Big Creek drainages. <br /> <br />The purpose of the public meetings is to explain the title n!ansfer process and the purposes of the transfer, <br />and to receive input on any concerns with the proposed traPsfer and suggestions on how public uses and <br />values can be protected. Reclamation will use the input reqeived to prepare an assessment report on the <br />potential transfer. Transfer of title for a Reclamation facility requires congressional authorization. <br /> <br />For more information or to receive a copy of the assessme~t report when it is completed, contact the <br />Bureau of Reclamation at 970-248-0600. <br /> <br />New USGS Fact Sheet on Past and Present Droughts in Utah: For more than 100 years, the USGS has <br />been collecting water data in Utah. A new USGS fact sheet entitled "Drought Conditions in Utah during <br />2002: A Historic Perspective" has been published that compiles this data. It can be found online at <br />htto ://water. USgs. gOV /pubs/fs/fs-03 7-03/. <br /> <br />The USGS also has a reproducible photograph of Lake Powell in drought conditions that can be found at <br />htto://water.usgs.gov/uubs/fs/fs-037-03/. (Lake Powell neat Hite, Utah, showing exposed channel of the <br />Colorado and Dirty Devil rivers, which are normally flood~d by the lake, as well as the deltaic sediments <br />that are deposited at the upper end of the lake; view to the fast in October 2002. <br /> <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Figure 2. Lake Powell near Hite, Utah. showing exposed chann~l of the Colorado and Dirty Devil Rivers, which are <br />normally flooded by the lake, as well as the deltaic sediments th~t are deposited at the upper end of the lake; view <br />to the east in October 2002. ' <br /> <br />Blue River Decree Litigation: On Aug. 7 several western Colorado water users associations filed a <br />petition to enforce the provisions ofthe Blue River Decree, alleging Reclamation failed to maintain a <br />required 152,000 acre-feet of water in Green Mountain Reservoir for the use and benefit of Western Slope . <br />water users. The West Slope water users claim the Bureau :Violated the terms of the Blue River Decree <br />: <br /> <br />12 <br />